Keith Leslie Johnson is lecturer of English and film and media studies at the College of William and Mary.

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Acknowledgments

ANIMIST CINEMA

Humiliation, or Object Life

On the Marionette Cinema

Anti-Illusion: Fantasy in G Minor and Et Cetera

Combinatorics: The Last Trick and Game with Stones

Tragedies without Actors: The Ossuary and Fall of the House of Usher

Wunderkammer, or Creaturely Life

Amateur Play: Historia naturae

Impersonal Play: Picnic with Weissmann

Child's Play: Down to the Cellar, Alice, and Little Otik

Haptics, or Animal Life

You Are What You Eat: Food

The Art of Conversation: Dimensions of Dialogue

Please Touch: Conspirators of Pleasure

Imagination, or Political Life

As Above, So Below: Faust

(Ab)normalization: The Flat, A Quiet Week in the House, and The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia

Absolute Freedom: Lunacy

Survival, or Ecological Life

Flat Ontology: Surviving Life

Ethical Misanthropy: Hmyz

INTERVIEWS WITH JAN SVANKMAJER

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Keith Leslie Johnson is a lecturer of English and film and media studies at the College of William and Mary.